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Big Tech

With Apple Back on Top, CEO Tim Cook Preps for Earnings Curtain Call

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Shares of Apple have risen 26% this year, enough to help it retake the market cap throne from momentary usurper Nvidia earlier this month.

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Semiconductors

China’s Making Memory with its New Biggest Company

Changxin Technology Group, or CXMT for short, soared 466% in its debut yesterday on Shanghai’s STAR Market.

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Media & Entertainment

YouTube’s Peacock Partnership is a Streaming Bundle Breakthrough

For YouTube, the partnership is the latest and greatest attempt to trounce Netflix as both seek to become all-in-one entertainment platforms.

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Artificial Intelligence

‘Modelmaxxing’ Replaces ‘Tokenmaxxing’ for Firms Grappling With AI Costs

Faster, cheaper models from DeepSeek, Moonshot and other Chinese firms let users prioritize AI cost-effectiveness, undercutting US giants.

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Big Tech

Google Touts Flashy Plan for Cheaper AI as Capital Spending Reaches $45 Billion

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In the meantime, its sales rose 24% in the second quarter as search revenue climbed 17% and its AI-boosted cloud biz jumped more than 80%.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI, Anthropic Speed Toward IPOs Amid Growing Scrutiny of Token Payments

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Enterprise customers have begun to doubt the burdensome cost of pay-per-use token consumption and are looking to cheaper models.

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Industrials

The SpaceX IPO Is About Way More Than Just Rocket Ships

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Projections of massive growth for X (née Twitter), xAI and Starlink are all central to the lofty SpaceX IPO thesis.

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